thestar.com - 6/23/2009
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Doug Smith SPORTS REPORTER Every day, they meet and sit and chat and digest the vagaries of this week's NBA draft, Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo and his braintrust trying to get a grip on something as elusive as the thoughts of others. It is impossible to get any true read on what ...
sportsradiointerviews.com - 6/18/2009
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sportsradiointerviews.com —
Toronto Raptors fans have seen this movie before.
In 2004, after a lot of griping about not...
being happy, Vince Carter finally got his way and got traded out of Toronto. At that point, Chris Bosh took over the reins as the franchise player. When ...
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Bryan Colangelo Re: Bosh - It’s Not Time to Panic
sports.yahoo.com - 6/22/2009
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With the NBA Draft just a few days
away, Ball Don't Lie has decided to weigh in...
with its own 2009 Mock Draft, just for shots and giggles . But since we know so little about college basketball, we called in SB Nation's team experts (and a few others) ...
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BDL 2009 NBA Mock Draft: Pick No. 9, Raptors
petemarasmitch.com - 6/24/2009
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Chris Bosh and I are excited. Are you?
(AP via Daylife) Anybody else as excited as I...
am for the 2009 NBA draft , a.k.a. Bryan Colangelo Redemption Night? If you are just as pumped, stoked or whatever-other-adjective to see what the Raptors will do this Thursday night, comment below, ...
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Raptors draft 2009: Preact and react!
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Morning Coffee – June 23
Raptors Republic - ESPN TrueHoop's Raptors Blog —
Toronto Star
That’s not to suggest there’s a gem to be found at No. 9 this year. According to a variety of experts and NBA talent evaluators, the draft is thin on all-stars but deep on parity, making it more troublesome for general managers with picks outside the top two or three.
No one knows – even moreso this year than in others – whether a guy slated to go fourth will be better than someone the so-called "experts" think is worthy of the 12th or even 16th selection.
And it’s ...
Doug Smith not sure where James Harden went
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This week there have been a lot of incorrect facts and spelling mistakes on major websites and it has been getting on our nerves.
Covers.com, who fired their editorial department last year, had a brutal error on the front page of their site the other day (failed to grab a screen shot).
Now here is one from today’s Toronto Star courtesy of Doug Smith.
Smith does not know where James Harden went to school. Now we assume he does and just forgot the “State” part but it looks bad when the paper’s basketball guru can’t ...
Linkage for Jun 21 11am to Jun 23 7pm
Raptors Republic - ESPN TrueHoop's Raptors Blog —
... TheStar.com | Raptors rolling the dice at draft That's not to suggest there's a gem to be found at No. 9 this year. According to a variety of experts and NBA talent evaluators, the draft is thin on all-stars but deep on parity, making it more troublesome for general managers with picks outside the top two or three. ...
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Morning Coffee – June 23
raptorsrepublic.com 6/23/2009 —
Toronto Star
That’s not to suggest there’s a gem to be found at No. 9 this year. According to a variety of experts and NBA talent evaluators, the draft is thin on all-stars but deep on parity, making it more troublesome for general managers with picks outside the top two or ...
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Morning Coffee – June 24
raptorsrepublic.com 6/24/2009 — Toronto Sun
Despite there being less than 48 hours to the actual selection, Colangelo, given his druthers, wouldn’t mind making the pick right now.
“It’s almost like the draft can’t come soon enough,” Colangelo said. “Right now is when things get really ...
Raptors Lose Out On Crawford
hoopsaddict.com 6/26/2009 — In this writers humble opinion, the Toronto Raptors dropped the ball when they failed to entice the Golden State Warriors into trading Jamal Crawford north of the border. While Bryan Colangelo never talked about Crawford as being a player he was ...
RAPTORS: Colangelo Identifies Five Potential Picks For Raptors
nba.com 6/24/2009 — Draft Central 09 | Raptors Prepare For Unpredictable Draft | News Conference Video: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Mike Ulmer - raptors.com June 23, 2009 Toronto Raptors president Bryan Colangelo is confident of landing one of his five favourites ...
The Evolution of Colangelo
raptorsrepublic.com 8/6/2009 — If you compare the 2006-07 Raptors with the group we have currently assembled you’ll notice a significant shift in Colangelo’s basketball paradigm. Two years ago when questioned by the season-seat holders about the lack of rebounding on the team, he stated that there was no need ...
Heat make offers to Moon, Anthony (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - NBA News 6/22/2009
The Miami Heat have made qualifying offers to forward Jamario Moon and center Joel Anthony. Both are now restricted free agents, but the Heat will have the right to match any offer they receive from other teams. The Heat made the announcement Monday. ...
